For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues -… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry… — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago,… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp...… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation… — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse, Etta James. I'm really into blues and R&B type of stuff, '90s hip-hop; that's… — Billie Lourd Copy Share Image
You stopped by my house first, Mister Blues and blues, you didn't do me much good. You, should have heard me beggin.… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain -… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
“…Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of… — Craig Werner Copy Share Image
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul. — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
Y'know, you can sit in a room, practise all day, learn your scales and blaze blues riffs: it's easy to hide behind… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I think 'Adiye/Yadike' is unique and fresh and something new for Indian films. It brings together the blues and gospel feel with… — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
My wife one time got a fishbone stuck in her throat and had to fly back to L.A. from Monte Carlo to… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll… — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I like the style of the deVOL kitchens - shaker style with dark greys and blues, ceramic tiles and metallics dotted around. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
If I'm, you know, in that mind-set and you're just playing in a bar and it's dark and you just dig in,… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and… — Koko Taylor Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
